Description:
A vulnerability was reported in JBoss Enterprise Web Server. A remote user can conduct a man-in-the-middle attack on SSL session renegotiation.

A remote user with the ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack can exploit a flaw in the underlying SSL/TLS protocol to inject arbitrary plain text into the exchange between the client and the server, with the arbitrary data as a prefix to the session.

The vulnerability resides in the TLS 1.0 or later and SSLv3 protocols.

[Editor's note: The flaw resides in the protocol and not in the protocol implementation. Some vendors are implementing a temporary workaround that prohibits session renegotiation until the protocol itself can be modified. Several protocol implementations are affected, including OpenSSL, GnuTLS, Network Security Services, and Java Secure Socket Extension.]

Impact:
A remote user can with the ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack can inject arbitrary plain text data into the exchange, preceding the session data.